Isaiah 14:17 BSB — MannaFest

Isaiah 14:17

who turned the world into a desert and destroyed its cities, who refused to let the captives return to their homes?”

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ASV

that made the world as a wilderness, and overthrew the cities thereof; that let not loose his prisoners to their home?

KJV

That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?

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Commentary

2 voices

Thomas Aquinas

Commentary on Isaiah (1274)

That made the world a wilderness, exiling men, and destroyed the cities, overturning their governments, that opened not the prison to his prisoners, that they might see light: they spread their terror in the land of the living (Ezek 32:25).

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The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

That made the world as a wilderness - That made cities and kingdoms desolate. That opened not the house of his prisoners - This is a description of his oppression and cruelty. Of course many prisoners would be taken in war. Instead of giving them liberty, he threw them into prison and kept them there. This may be rendered, ‘his prisoners he did not release that they might return home’ (see the Margin). The Chaldee renders it, ‘To his prisoners he did not open the door.’ The sense is substantially the same.

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Original language & word study

9 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
שָׂ֥ם	sam	[who] made	H7760 →
תֵּבֵ֛ל	te.Vel	[the] world	H8398 →
כַּמִּדְבָּ֖ר	ka.mid.Bar	like <the> wilderness	H4057 →
וְעָרָ֣יו	ve.'a.Rav	and cities its	H5892 →
הָרָ֑ס	ha.Ras	he tore down	H2040 →
אֲסִירָ֖יו	'a.si.Rav	prisoners his	H615 →
לֹא־	lo'-	not	H3808 →
פָ֥תַח	Fa.tach	he opened	H6605 →
בָּֽיְתָה׃	Ba.ye.tah	home towards	H1004 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Isaiah 58:6
Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to break the chains of wickedness, to untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and tear off every yoke?
leads to
- Nehemiah 5:10–12
  I, as well as my brothers and my servants, have been lending the people money and grain. Please, let us stop this usury.
- Isaiah 58:9
  Then you will call, and the LORD will answer; you will cry out, and He will say, ‘Here I am.’ If you remove the yoke from your midst, the pointing of the finger and…
- 1 Timothy 6:1
  All who are under the yoke of slavery should regard their masters as fully worthy of honor, so that God’s name and our teaching will not be discredited.
- Jeremiah 34:8–11
  After King Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people in Jerusalem to proclaim liberty, the word came to Jeremiah from the LORD
Through
Ezekiel 6:14
I will stretch out My hand against them, and wherever they live I will make the land a desolate waste, from the wilderness to Diblah. Then they will know that I am the LORD.’”
leads to
- Isaiah 5:25
  Therefore the anger of the LORD burns against His people; His hand is raised against them to strike them down. The mountains quake, and the corpses lay like refuse in the streets. Despite all…
Through
Joel 2:3
Before them a fire devours, and behind them a flame scorches. The land before them is like the Garden of Eden, but behind them, it is like a desert wasteland—surely nothing will escape them.
leads to
- Isaiah 51:3
  For the LORD will comfort Zion and will look with compassion on all her ruins; He will make her wilderness like Eden and her desert like the garden of the LORD. Joy and gladness…
- Genesis 2:8
  And the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, where He placed the man He had formed.
- Joel 1:19–20
  To You, O LORD, I call, for fire has consumed the open pastures and flames have scorched all the trees of the field.

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Where the connections lead

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About Isaiah